Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1992, 4:18 PM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1992, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1992, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Erie, PA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KERI 082020 SVRERI PAC049-082115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA 418 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ...NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY AND AJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS AT 415 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE ERIE ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF ERIE...THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE CLOSE TO THE CITY OF ERIE AND PRESQUE ISLE STATE PARK. SMALL BOAT OPERATORS ON LAKE ERIE AND PRESQUE ISLE BAY SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:01 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
PAZ001-082030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE, PA 350 PM EDT SAT AUG 08 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING NEAR THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKESHORE... AT 350 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OFFSHORE FROM CONNEAUT OHIO...OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING JUST SOUTH OF THE LAKESHORE IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO. ALSO AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE CENTRAL LAKE SOUTH OF LONG POINT CANADA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL BOATERS ON LAKE ERIE SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR. PARRISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 69 min |
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 6:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Venango | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lawrence, Mercer | 68 min |
| Aug 8, 7:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lawrence | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 65 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.